Samsung, MS open Gaming Hubs in London, New York

Samsung, MS open Gaming Hubs in London, New York

Samsung Electronics Co. has partnered with Microsoft to launch gaming hubs in the heart of London and New York. The two companies have installed Sam...

Korea avoids recession on strong consumption; outlook still tough

Korea avoids recession on strong consumption; outlook still tough

South Korea averted a recession as Asia’s fourth-largest economy rebounded more than expected in the first quarter on strong private consumpti...

S.Korea’s Woori Financial profit up on interest rate margins

S.Korea’s Woori Financial profit up on interest rate margins

Woori Financial Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest financial holding company, logged growth in a quarterly net profit as larger interest rate...

Netflix to inject $2.5 bn in Korean drama series, movies over next 4 years

Netflix to inject $2.5 bn in Korean drama series, movies over next 4 years

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  US streaming giant Netflix is slated to invest $2.5 billion in South Korea over the next four years to boost its cont...

S.Korea launches foreign worker quota exclusively for shipbuilding sector

S.Korea launches foreign worker quota exclusively for shipbuilding sector

South Korea will set a separate quota of 5,000 foreign workers to solve the labor shortage in domestic shipbuilding and accept 120,000 such workers ...

Number of travelers on S.Korea's LCCs jumped 104-fold in Q1

Number of travelers on S.Korea's LCCs jumped 104-fold in Q1

Demand for overseas flights in South Korea has exploded since the resumption of air travel operations amid the substantial easing of COVID-19 restri...

Upstage beats Amazon, Nvidia to rank first in global AI competition

Upstage beats Amazon, Nvidia to rank first in global AI competition

South Korea’s artificial intelligence startup Upstage on Monday said it ranked first in four categories at the International Association for P...

S-Oil’s price target falls on worsening refining margin

S-Oil’s price target falls on worsening refining margin

Yuanta Securities Korea lowered its target price for S-Oil Corp. to 100,000 won ($75) from 110,000 won on Tuesday, saying the oil refining industry ...

S.Korea wary of tougher US anti-China moves for chipmakers

S.Korea wary of tougher US anti-China moves for chipmakers

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday kicked off a six-day state visit to the US with a tough assignment: finding diplomatic solutions for ...

S.Korea's medical tourists rebound to 50% of pre-pandemic levels

S.Korea's medical tourists rebound to 50% of pre-pandemic levels

South Korea's medical tourism industry, which experienced a severe setback due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has shown considerable recovery, with the n...

S.Korea, Chile to enhance cooperation for green hydrogen

S.Korea, Chile to enhance cooperation for green hydrogen

South Korea is exploring ways to cooperate with Chile in the transition toward a hydrogen economy and clean hydrogen production, as Chile has abunda...

S.Korea imports over 8,000 tons of whiskey in Q1

S.Korea imports over 8,000 tons of whiskey in Q1

South Korea's whiskey imports hit an all-time high for the same period In the first quarter of this year. It is the second-highest quarterly figure ...

Samsung Display to use waste glass in cement to erect new HQ

Samsung Display to use waste glass in cement to erect new HQ

South Korea's Samsung Display will use recycled cement using waste glass from the display production process to build a new headquarters.The company...

Samsung faces $303 mn jury verdict in memory patent lawsuit in US

Samsung faces $303 mn jury verdict in memory patent lawsuit in US

Samsung Electronics Co. lost a semiconductor patent infringement lawsuit filed in the US. The South Korean company received a jury verdict to pay ab...

Samsung Life buys 20% of French asset manager Meridiam

Samsung Life buys 20% of French asset manager Meridiam

Samsung Life Insurance, managing 223.1 trillion won ($167.5 billion) in assets, has acquired a 20% stake in Paris-based infrastructure investment fi...

iMarket Korea, Taylor city in Texas sign MOU for business agreement

iMarket Korea, Taylor city in Texas sign MOU for business agreement

iMarket Korea, South Korean distributor of industrial materials,  said on Friday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with th...

Ransomware attacks targeting S.Korean companies on sharp rise

Ransomware attacks targeting S.Korean companies on sharp rise

Global hacker groups' ransomware attacks against domestic companies and organizations in the first quarter of this year have been revealed to total ...

S.Korea's Kainos Medicine exports AIDS treatment technology to China

S.Korea's Kainos Medicine exports AIDS treatment technology to China

South Korean new drug developer Kainos Medicine Inc. announced on Friday that it had signed a technology transfer agreement with Chinese pharmaceuti...

Lotte’s soju team applauded as MZers bedazzled by sugar-free Saero

Lotte’s soju team applauded as MZers bedazzled by sugar-free Saero

Young consumers, dubbed millennials and Gen Zers, are by nature conscious of fleeting fads.These days, one of the hottest trends in South Korea is h...

Samsung Heavy forms int'l consortium to make nuclear plants at sea

Samsung Heavy forms int'l consortium to make nuclear plants at sea

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and Denmark's Seaborg Technologies on Friday announced their...

Samsung, LG show Korean War hero tribute videos on Times Square

Samsung, LG show Korean War hero tribute videos on Times Square

A tribute video to honor Korean and U.S. veterans of the Korean War started screening on billboards in New York’s Times Square on Thursday. Th...

Korean won near 5-month low despite weak dollar; outlook dark

Korean won near 5-month low despite weak dollar; outlook dark

The South Korean won fell to the weakest level in almost five months, underperforming other currencies despite a softer dollar, as sluggish fundamen...

CJ OliveNetworks opens S.Korea's first logistics center with 5G

CJ OliveNetworks opens S.Korea's first logistics center with 5G

South Korea's digital service company CJ OliveNetworks on Thursday said it set up the mobile communications network "Ieum 5G" exclusively for busine...

S.Korea to inject $15 bn in rechargeable battery sector by 2030

S.Korea to inject $15 bn in rechargeable battery sector by 2030

South Korea will invest 20 trillion won ($15.1 billion) in the rechargeable battery sector by 2030 to widen its technology gap with global competito...

Korea Tourism Organization to host K-Tourist Festival in Japan

Korea Tourism Organization to host K-Tourist Festival in Japan

The Korea Tourism Organization announced on Thursday that it will hold a "K-Tourism Festival" on Apr. 21-22 in Hiroshima and Fukuoka, the key market...

Korean gov’t pledges additional $7.9 bn for startups amid fund squeeze

Korean gov’t pledges additional $7.9 bn for startups amid fund squeeze

The South Korean government will spend an additional 10.5 trillion won ($7.9 billion) to shore up the country’s startups and venture capitalis...

Samsung’s Lee likely to meet Apple, Google, MS CEOs during US trip

Samsung’s Lee likely to meet Apple, Google, MS CEOs during US trip

 Samsung Group leader Lee Jae-yong will meet with chief executives of leading US companies, including Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook and Google LL...

S.Korea sees boom in domestic demand for zero-sugar soju

S.Korea sees boom in domestic demand for zero-sugar soju

A "zero-sugar" craze has emerged on the South Korean market for the country's traditional alcoholic drink soju. Lotte Chilsung Beverage said its die...

S.Korea to raise R&D's share of defense budget to 10%

S.Korea to raise R&D's share of defense budget to 10%

South Korea will develop a reconnaissance and interception system to respond to North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile threats from space by rais...

POSCO mulls $3.3 bn investment in industrial cluster by 2033

POSCO mulls $3.3 bn investment in industrial cluster by 2033

South Korean steel giant POSCO Group said on Wednesday it will consider investing 4.4 trillion won ($3.3 billion) in the state-run industrial comple...

S.Korean game developer Krafton acquires Japan’s ADK for $517 million S.Korea's stablecoin frenzy fuels stock rally despite regulatory uncertainty SK Hynix joins Samsung in 200 trillion won market cap club Samsung on hiring spree to bolster US foundry sales LS Electric poised to join Nvidia's supply chain via Vertiv deal